Legendary striker Pele’s daughters have updated fans and shared photos from hospital after their father was admitted again in Sao Paulo following tumor surgery.
The three-time World Cup winner with Brazil returned to his country’s leading Albert Einstein hospital this week.
In September, he had a tumor removed during a 30-day spell at the institution that treated Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro when he was stabbed on the 2018 campaign trail.
According to a statement issued on Wednesday by four doctors, the Santos legend is in a stable condition, will continue treatment on the tumor and should be discharged in days.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Brazilian soccer legend Pele hospitalized to undergo treatment for a colon tumor. Sao Paulo's Hospital Albert Einstein says he is in stable condition and should be discharged in the next few days</p>— Bruce Amani (@AmaniBruce) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmaniBruce/status/1468586398420717578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2021</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="pt" dir="ltr">O Hospital Albert Einstein, em São Paulo, confirma que Pelé está internado na unidade para dar sequência ao tratamento de um tumor no cólon. O câncer foi identificado em setembro deste ano, quando o ex-jogador passou 30 dias internado. <a href="https://t.co/GAY3GNcDZ5">pic.twitter.com/GAY3GNcDZ5</a></p>— Rádio BandNews FM (@radiobandnewsfm) <a href="https://twitter.com/radiobandnewsfm/status/1468581347975380993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2021</a></blockquote>
Pele’s daughters provided updates to his millions of fans worldwide, with Kely Nascimento telling her “insta family” that her social networks were “booming again” while posting a bedside selfie of the legend.
Nascimento added that her sister, Kely, was “petting him there for me”.
“I appreciate all the affection we’ve received from all of you. This photo was taken 10 minutes ago [at the hospital] where my father finished a procedure that had been scheduled for months,” she added.
“In two or three days, he will return home to enjoy Christmas,” Kely revealed, claiming: “This wasn’t a surprise. It was already scheduled and is part of the treatment.”
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